AI on Billboards

[WondersOfLife]

Anyone else noticed the eerie AI Disney characters theyve been using on the billboards and ads?

The AK Lion King One strikes out to me the most. Theres also for the new Little Mermaid show thats just a bit unsettling.

 

[Stupido]

Could you post pictures of what you're referring to?

 

[WondersOfLife]

 

[Baloo124]

I personally don't see anything wrong with either image, but get that AI is creating a mixed bag of love/hate currently among the public.

There was a AI Coca Cola commercial run back during Christmastime with polar bears that, again, personally didn't see anything wrong with, but when you read the YouTube comments surrounding it...
Yikes!

 

[Cranky Kong]

Is it even AI? It just looks like CG renders to me. Only Simba looks all that weird to me and I think that's because they're using the FotLK puppet as reference. There was a similar image Disney put out a few years ago people though was AI but it just looked weird because they used the park costumes as reference.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Is it even AI? It just looks like CG renders to me. Only Simba looks all that weird to me and I think that's because they're using the FotLK puppet as reference. There was a similar image Disney put out a few years ago people though was AI but it just looked weird because they used the park costumes as reference.

Fair. I just personally think they both look a little uncanny. But maybe thats just me.

 

[solidyne]

I despise AI slop as much as the next guy, but, unlike that garbage, these pics don't give me the willies. Slightly "off" but not terrible.

 

[EagleScout610]

Not a billboard but when you look closely the problems start to show-

- Tiana's hand vanishing.
- Tiana's kerchief being off center from her collar
- Tiana's eyes
- The fox's hand vanishing

 

[ChrisFL]

I don't think any of those are AI...regarding Tiana's, I think the "disappearing" hands imply they're inside the boat

Remember to "keep all hands and arms inside of the boat at all times".

There could also be some "AI" touch-ups happening too. What a lot of people are upset about are generative AI models that steal others work (by training the models on everything they get access to) without compensation, or just remove all human employees from the equation. That Coca-cola ad, while not only being extremely creepy, also meant they didn't really need any human involvement at all, past some guy typing a few prompts into a computer (Theoretically, I don't know how much actual effort went into it)

On that note, Disney and Universal are teaming up to sue Midjourney for profiting off of their IP by scraping all of their media for their own generative AI models.

 

[Baloo124]

From another thread, but if you look closely you can spot a few small problems.

-Castle missing a few features; not 100% accurate.
-Brick wall toward bottom right is not constructed accurately / evenly on the top row.
-Palm trees near top left are missing trunks.

 

[danlb_2000]

Not a billboard but when you look closely the problems start to show-
View attachment 872916

- Tiana's hand vanishing.
- Tiana's kerchief being off center from her collar
- Tiana's eyes
- The fox's hand vanishing

The end of her pinkie finger is also missing.

 

[ProjectXBlog]

It’s hard to say with the bus ads — they have that look, but a lot of AI-generated art has that knockoff “Disney” thing happening so it’s almost like a snake eating its own tail at this point. They definitely are using AI in some of their design work these days; the posters for Oogie Boogie Bash look terrible:

 

[jloucks]

Fair. I just personally think they both look a little uncanny. But maybe thats just me.

It is absolutely not just you. A.I. art and animation is very unsettling to a lot of people, me included.

 

[jloucks]

From another thread, but if you look closely you can spot a few small problems.
View attachment 872980

-Castle missing a few features; not 100% accurate.
-Brick wall toward bottom right is not constructed accurately / evenly on the top row.
-Palm trees near top left are missing trunks.

This is a photo from an alt hell dimension for sure.

 

[VicariousCorpse]

Bus Billboard

Not a billboard but when you look closely the problems start to show-

They definitely are using AI in some of their design work these days; the posters for Oogie Boogie Bash look terrible:

None of this is AI.

 

[WondersOfLife]

None of this is AI.

I wouldnt mind just flat out believing you if you have maybe the artists sources.

If yall dont believe Disney has more advanced AI tech than anyone else, which may be harder to spot, then I'd be concerned for yall getting scammed.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Not a billboard but when you look closely the problems start to show-
View attachment 872916

- Tiana's hand vanishing.
- Tiana's kerchief being off center from her collar
- Tiana's eyes
- The fox's hand vanishing

The hand vanishing thing seems like a cheap cop out to "crop" her hands in the boat as to not expose the ai hands. It looks badly edited imho.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Disney doesnt need new art. They have plenty of stock images of these characters. That is why I am convinced, specifically the lion king one, that it is AI. No reason for Simba to look that uncanny if its literally just a picture of Simba. It does not reflect the puppet all that well.

You wanna see Disney reflect puppets? Look at that AWFUL animation they did for the new little mermaid show and then tell me the differences between those and the simba art.

 

[VicariousCorpse]

I wouldnt mind just flat out believing you if you have maybe the artists sources.

If yall dont believe Disney has more advanced AI tech than anyone else, which may be harder to spot, then I'd be concerned for yall getting scammed.

Well, for example the Oogie Boogie bash poster was confirmed by Scott Gustin to be not AI after speaking with the supposed artist. Whether you believe him or not that's up to you, but I haven't seen him post anything like this that wasn't verified by Disney themselves. The name of the artist wasn't given out either. I'm assuming they don't to deal with the backlash of all the people supposedly sticking up for artists by claiming their work is garbage and AI.

In my opinion there is nothing in any of the examples posted (except for the nightmare Mickey of course) that looks AI generated. These type of renders have been done for quite a while now. We have to be careful in not throwing the artists we claim to care about under the bus in the pursuit of finding AI.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Not a billboard but when you look closely the problems start to show-
View attachment 872916

- Tiana's hand vanishing.
- Tiana's kerchief being off center from her collar
- Tiana's eyes
- The fox's hand vanishing

Using a Fox and a Bear not being too subtle...